To good to be true
Thursday night I went to get some ice cream and once I got the ice cream I went out to my car and it wouldn’t start. I had a click and then nothing. The lights inside began to dim and then just wouldn’t come back on. First thing I thought to try was check to see if the battery is charged. I ask someone to give me a jump and luckily they had some cables. After that didn’t work (same thing, click and no start) I waited until I saw some people to ask if they could give me a push start. I managed to get three guys to give me a push out of the parking spot and up a hill a little bit. I was able to roll down the hill and get the car started.
Once back at my apartment I wanted to try and see if the car would start now because it ran fine. I turn the key and I get the same results. It is Saturday now and I am still trying to figure it out. I think it is the starter motor but there are a couple of things that just don’t add up.
1. My radio would not turn on when i was driving and kept trying to eject a cd that did not exist.
2. My antenna would not go down when the car was off. The reason that is odd to me is because if it were just the starter than was bad all of the other electricals should work fine.
3. When I put in the key now (I removed the radio just to take it out of the equation) I hear some odd noises from the center console. It could be somewhere in the dash but I am not sure. It almost sounds like when you run current through a speaker but at the same time it sounds different. It may be the fuel pump but I am not sure.
So now I am trying to figure out why my car will not start and what the mysterious noises and problems are. My battery is at autozone getting a charge right now and I am going to go to a different autozone to pick up a starter. I may need to replace it tomorrow but I am not sure where I will be able to do it.
On the plus side Beth is feeling better. She has been sick for the past 3 days. I saw V for Vendetta last night and I didn’t care for it to much (Beth says it is because I cannot relate to a book worm character). Maybe I will write a review of it sometime but for now my recovering wife, car work, xbox, and pvr take presidence.
That is all for now.